Badr bin Hamid Al-Sulami

Head of the History Department

Dr Badr bin Hamid Al-Sulami is Head of the History Department at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah. He oversees the department's academic programmes and its teaching and research plans, covering the history of the Arabian Peninsula, Islamic civilisation and the history of the Two Holy Mosques and the Hijaz. His research interests lie in historical sources and methods of criticising them, in documenting the history of Makkah and its architecture, pilgrimage accounts and institutions, and in connecting historical study with the needs of the Kingdom's cultural and tourism sector.